Why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is still so relevant
Really, the only things separating Bob Cratchit from the average 2022 Londoner are electricity and the fact he could afford…
ByCost of Living Crisis
The ‘cost of living’ refers to the price of things around the world and how much money people have to spend on essentials. The ‘cost of living crisis’ refers to the fall in ‘real’ disposable income that the UK has experienced since late 2021, which is making it difficult for people to afford food, fuel and basic household items. This crisis is being caused predominantly by high inflation outstripping increases in wages and benefits, and has been further exacerbated by recent tax and energy price increases. Read more about the cost of living crisis here.
The Tories’ 2019 manifesto looks beyond absurd three years on
The Conservatives have fulfilled scarcely a single one of their election pledges. Mostly they have achieved the precise opposite.
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UK energy prices surged as snow fell
The price of power traded at a record high of £620.28 per megawatt hour.
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We have not “run out of money” to pay strikers
The government’s dodging the crux of the matter: the public sector is expected to provide more for less.
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Tens of thousands shut out of work by Home Office visa renewal delays
Migrants with the right to work in the UK are being denied jobs – including in care homes – and…
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Posh but poor? The return of the squeezed middle
From new food-bank users to cash-strapped professionals, middle earners are being hit hard by the rising cost of living.
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Gordon Brown: Why it’s time to take the shame out of need
As the cost-of-living crisis pushes more and more people into poverty, charities have become the last line of defence.
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Thanks to a kind reader, I now have an eggcup to keep my squalor at bay
The gift is, by some margin, the classiest thing in the Hove-l, and I have been gorging myself on eggs…
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Mick Lynch: there’s a “corrupt” relationship between the government and train operators
The RMT figurehead says that even after a summer of strikes, proposals from rail bosses are “not acceptable”.
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The New Statesman’s change-makers
Martin Lewis, Carolyn Harris and other Positive Impact Award nominees reflect on 2022 and the challenges ahead.
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Cash-strapped councils “not out of the woods” after Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement
There needs to be a long-term funding plan to protect services, says the Local Government Association.
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Black people are almost four times as likely to experience homelessness as white people
A third of black people with experience of homelessness have faced discrimination from a social or private landlord.
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I’m a public health doctor – I know austerity is why people are struggling
Jeremy Hunt missed an opportunity to improve the population’s health in his Autumn Statement.
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“It could’ve been a lot worse”: Martin Lewis on the Autumn Statement
The money-saving expert says next year will be difficult for millions, but that his worst fears of benefits cuts have…
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Can the Autumn Statement cushion the Tories’ fall?
The Prime Minister is going to need more than austerity to convince voters his plans are fair.
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Ofgem’s “regulatory failures” cost billpayers £2.7bn
The energy watchdog was “too slow” to prevent supplier bankruptcies, MPs said.
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Prices are rising – and so is insurance fraud
A trend that began at the beginning of the pandemic has accelerated as the cost-of-living rises.
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The death of the £3 supermarket meal deal signals a grim new era
Where have all the discounts and cheap promotions gone?
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Britain’s big squeeze
A new era of higher interest rates and lower wages threatens another lost decade for living standards.
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